"Bad Romance" is a 2009 song by Music/LadyGaga. It was part of her album ''The Fame Monster'' and was released as a single in 2009.The video is around five minutes long, and you can see it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I here]]. It's also got a (heavily spammed) view count of over 500 million and is jam-packed with elements of MindScrew taken UpToEleven. Which is hardly unexpected, considering who sang it.

The music video has won 7 Video Music Awards (Video of the Year, Best Pop Video, Best Female Video, Best Dance Music Video, Best Choreography, Best Direction and Best Editing).

----!! Tropes used in "Bad Romance" include:

%% * AsceticAesthetic%% * BatheHerAndBringHerToMe: Implied.%% * BetweenMyLegs* BookEnds: The music video starts end ends with Fugue in B minor by Bach.* CelebrityEndorsement:** The video for "Bad Romance" features a man using a Wii remote to sell Lady Gaga as a prostitute.** Also, her "Heartbeats" headphones which are part of Dr Dre's "Beats" collection, as well as the Beats Edition HP Envy 15 laptops, both featured prominently in the same video.*** The laptops were the scoreboard for the whore auction.%% * CreepyCleanliness* CreepyCoolCrosses: One outfit in the video features a glass cross over her crotch; in the shot after the one that outfit appears in, she also stops dancing to do the sign of the cross.* DoubleEntendre: "Want you in my rear window", anyone?* {{Fanservice}}: Watch the video and count the fetishes as they come up. Latex, non-con, white slavery...and the robot-fetishist crowd were very happy with a lot of her movements.* ForceFeeding: Gaga gets force-fed a glass of some beverage.* GratuitousFrench: "Je veux ton amour et je veux ta revanche."* LightIsNotGood: White walls and furnishings, bright lighting, lots of white and/or sparkly costumes, and the plot involves slavery and murder.%% * MakingASpectacleOfYourself* MaleGaze: The video takes a lot of common uses of Male Gaze in music videos and puts them in a nightmarish [[FanDisservice context]].%% * ManOnFire%% * MadLove: The theme of the song.%% * MindScrew: Oh, ''God''...* OutWithABang: Implied by the ending, though it could be a case of Out With A Striptease.%% * RefugeInAudacity%% * RightHandCat* SheCleansUpNicely: Inverted, as she appears in some scenes without any elaborate outfits or makeup, and is still pleasing to the eye.* ShoutOut:** To Creator/AlfredHitchcock, but...in a [[UnusualEuphemism somewhat unusual way]].--->''I want your Film/{{psycho}}, your Film/{{vertigo}} shtick,''--->''[[IntercourseWithYou Want you in my]] Film/RearWindow, baby you're sick.''** Apparently the Bad Romance-universe has adopted [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokedollars]] as their [[http://pics.livejournal.com/taydbear/pic/00031e0k/s320x240 form of currency.]]*** The symbol shown in the video is identical to an [[http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/159/ unofficial sign for the Russian rouble]] developed by a group of Russian graphic designers.** The opening shot of Gaga's Bathhaus is reminiscent of the scene in 'Film/{{Aliens}}'' where the Marines awake from the pods.*** And the body-bags from ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.*** Or even the torpedo casings that [[Franchise/StarTrek Starfleet]] uses as coffins for fallen members.*** Speaking of the opening, the pods themselves have red text over a white background and a [[FauxSymbolism gratuitous cross]] slapped on them. Anyone else thinking [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion NGE]]? [[invoked]]*** The opening shot looks like a mash-up of Creator/StanleyKubrick films. The bright glowing floors are highly reminiscent of the bedroom at the end of Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey, the pose looks like an inversion of the opening shot of Film/AClockworkOrange and the masks almost look like the ones worn during the cult orgy in ''Film/EyesWideShut''.** When watching the claw-handed Gaga groupies' crowned suits, is anyone else reminded of Max's costume and gestures from ''Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre''?*** The costumes were supposedly based on the pattern from the movie.** The dancers in white, with their covered faces and jerky movements are a ShoutOut to the Franchise/SilentHill nurses.* SingerNamedrop: --> "Gaga ooh la la"* SingleTear: Cut aways during the music video show a surpisingly low-key (in terms of make-up, anyway) Gaga becoming increasingly more upset. The camera is close to her face, and a single tear slides down her cheek near the end of the video.* SmokingHotSex: Well, Smoking Hot sex-turned-[[KillItWithFire fiery death]].* TorpedoTits: The notorious flamethrower bra towards the end of the video.* VisualPun: At the word "bitch" in the first "I'm a free bitch, baby", the camera cuts to the RightHandCat.----